Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the market collapsed in 1929, Morgan tried to stop the panic as it had managed to do before. It headed a pool that put up a reputed $240 million to support the market. But the move had little effect. While Morgan's interests were relatively unscathed by the...
After Morgan's death in 1943, Henry Alexander went off to war as a vice chairman of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey in Europe, came back to begin his swift rise to the top. He became the protege of President George Whitney, who had foresightedly launched a recruiting drive...
PRIVATE-HOUSING starts will exceed 1,300,000 units in 1959, close to 1950 record (1,352,000), predicts Housing and Home Finance Administrator Norman Mason. In first nine months housing starts were at annual rate of 1,375,000, but tight money is expected to cause more than seasonal...
A similar question is raised about the novel's hero, Physicist Sebastian Bloch, in whom readers will find it hard not to see at least some Oppenheimer traits: he has "a universal mind," an otherworldly face and a mesmeric personality. Bloch also belongs to a Communist apparatus, but carries...
He was a trial to nearly everyone, his parents included. Born in 1847 in Milan, "Ohio, the infant Thomas had a head so abnormally large that the family feared he might be "defective." His cantankerous, freethinking father tried to beat sense into young Tom with a birch switch that was...